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Trump names Cruz when asked about VP spot
The Hill ^ | Nov 17, 2015 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 11/17/2015 4:12:20 PM PST by EXCH54FE

Donald Trump on Tuesday named Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) when asked about his possible running mate in 2016.

“Ted Cruz is now agreeing with me 100 percent,” he said when asked about his vice presidential pick, according to Lifezette.

“Well, I like him,” Trump told radio host Laura Ingraham during her broadcast. "He’s backed everything I’ve said.” Unlike most of the Republican presidential hopefuls, Cruz has mostly refrained from attacking Trump, even appearing alongside him at a rally in September against the Iran nuclear deal.

The pair has also struck similar tones on topics such as border security and illegal immigration.

Still, Trump suggested late Monday that he will turn on Cruz if he becomes a threat to his front-runner status.

“If he catches on, I guess we’ll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; elections; killerticket; newyork; politics; reaganesquelandslide; republicans; tedcruz; texas; trump; trumpdoctrine; trumprevolution; winner
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To: EXCH54FE

Good to see Cruz has finally come around to Trump’s way of thinking. Before Donald announced, Cruz wanted to expand visas five fold and never mentioned a wall. All aboard the Trump train.


101 posted on 11/17/2015 5:20:03 PM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: Bobalu

I like that!


102 posted on 11/17/2015 5:21:00 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

He has a “healthy self-esteem.”


103 posted on 11/17/2015 5:23:09 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: skeeter

” . . . this would leave Cruz in the drivers seat ‘24. And he’d be 50 years old.”

Nothing wrong with that. Cruz will just be entering the prime of his life.


104 posted on 11/17/2015 5:23:56 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: Bobalu

YES!


105 posted on 11/17/2015 5:24:47 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: libbylu

You must’ve forgot the /s tag....because you couldn’t be serious...


106 posted on 11/17/2015 5:27:01 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: DaxtonBrown

“I think Trump/Cruz is the best we are going to get. Cruz is my preference intellectually, but I think we need Donald to break heads and keep Cruz from being railroaded.”

I think you could be right.


107 posted on 11/17/2015 5:36:11 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: EXCH54FE

Trump will be the battering ram to open the door for Cruz to get in as VP. I think Trump is who is needed to win the general, but I also think he would greatly value Cruz as a VP (and main adviser). They can tackle the tough issues together and Cruz will be great to take over after the first 4 years.


108 posted on 11/17/2015 5:36:22 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Godebert

Ha! Putting leftist allegations at the same level as the Constitution? Really, Godebert?

If this goes to court, and the decision is made that claims of Cruz’s ineligibility are loony, will you give up your anti-Cruz crusade?


109 posted on 11/17/2015 5:38:24 PM PST by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: EXCH54FE

The headline is concocted BS.

But it’s fun watching some folks doing the big chicken over it.


110 posted on 11/17/2015 5:40:13 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: firebrand

What’s totally wrong? That Cruz has been a consistently effective conservative for many years, or that Trump gets his talking points from Cruz?

Trump is Cruz for the masses ... dumbed down, simplified, and vulgarized.


111 posted on 11/17/2015 5:40:37 PM PST by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: EXCH54FE

I did not hear Trump name Cruz as VP. Not even close.


112 posted on 11/17/2015 5:50:47 PM PST by GilGil
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To: gogeo

Wrong.

Been around a fair number of SOCOM types in a past life and with few exceptions they were calm, usually serious (but not always) and had little need for egotism. Highly competitive but quietly confident.

Trump style ego could be catastrophic if allowed free rein at the wrong time.


113 posted on 11/17/2015 5:58:00 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (Cruz / West 2016)
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To: Godebert

The constitution is dead.

We are in the last stages of ‘war by other means’.


114 posted on 11/17/2015 5:59:25 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (Cruz / West 2016)
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To: libbylu
Of course not. Cruz will take Trump down. Calmly, methodically, like an adult without being a whiny baby. Looking forward to it.

If he does he'll be giving the job to Rubio...

115 posted on 11/17/2015 6:46:15 PM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: EXCH54FE
TRUMP / CRUZ
16 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 20

116 posted on 11/17/2015 6:57:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; Calpublican; cardinal4; ColdOne; ..
Annnnnd, Trump rises above 50%. :')

117 posted on 11/17/2015 6:59:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

I’ll take some ego over maximum narcissism with no discernible real world accomplishments as we’ve had for the last 7 years, any day.


118 posted on 11/17/2015 7:00:16 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: citizen

I almost put that as a possibility in my post; agreed.


119 posted on 11/17/2015 7:00:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT
I can’t wait to see the make over the White House will get. Maybe build a new one!

Probably need a new one before Obammy and ISIS are done....

120 posted on 11/17/2015 7:02:05 PM PST by kjam22
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